Dr. Steven Novella

Jay, you remember when we did, Jay and I and some of our friends did a knife-making class not too long ago, and

And the knife maker, the blacksmith, was great.

I mean, he had a lot of skill.

He knew what he was doing.

I don't think he was the greatest teacher because he had lost all sense of how much he has offloaded the six or seven things you need to be doing simultaneously in order to have good technique.

And he kept marveling at, like, why are you not doing all the things I told you to do at the same time?

Because I have to think of every single thing.

Yeah, and I physically...

I can't do that.

You've offloaded all this to other parts of your brain.

So to you, it's now second nature.

So yeah, it's not like this is new or we didn't know this, but they saw it in the brain for the first time.

Yeah, like they said, yeah, or we could now see it like...

After a certain amount of time, the frontal lobe does not activate and the temporal lobe does activate.

Like they showed that.

So I think, I mean, again, there's been other research to show the parts of that, but I think this is the first longitudinal one where they show it moving to another part of the brain, which is cool.

Yeah.

All right, well, good job.

So Jay, last week you had a solo win.

This week you have a solo loss.